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Milbourne, Linda A. – 2002
This ERIC Digest discusses the shortage of qualified teachers in mathematics classrooms and analyzes programs to enlarge the pool of mathematics teachers. (KHR)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Supply, Labor Turnover
Bush, William S. – 2003
This ERIC Digest provides an overview of concepts, writers, and tenets associated with the study of mathematics and culture and offers researchers a framework for the field, particularly with regard to rural contexts. (Author)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Culture, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education
Lee, Hyongyong – 2002
The systems approach provides a framework for integrating different scientific disciplines. This approach is used often in Earth Systems Education. This ERIC Digest describes the systems theory and its influence on science education. (Contains 16 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderson, Ronald D.; Helms, Jenifer V. – 2002
This ERIC Digest points out gaps in the educational reform process that educational researchers experience. An overview of known and unknown facts of reform with the vision of the National Science Education is presented. Characteristics of needed research are also explained. (YDS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education
Haury, David L. – 2002
Learning science through design offers students the opportunity to engage in real-life problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. This ERIC Digest explains the power of "design" as a teaching tool, what it brings to teaching, and what learning through design entails. (YDS)
Descriptors: Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Hands on Science
Haury, David L. – 2002
Observation is an extremely important aspect of science investigations and is one of the process skills that is a focal point in science education. This ERIC Digest describes the importance of process skills, specifically observation, for student learning and discusses implications for teaching and research. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Observation, Science Instruction
Haury, David L. – 2001
This ERIC Digest discusses the many ways that science and mathematics teachers can lead and help develop leadership in their schools and departments. The digest provides many suggestions about how teachers can lead along with ideas concerning the development of leadership roles. Resources for cultivating leadership are also provided. (Contains 14…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leaders, Leadership, Mathematics Teachers
Mukai, Gary – 2000
The Japanese-American internment experience during World War II continues to affect the Japanese-American community. This ERIC Digest provides six suggestions for teaching about the Japanese-American internment, touching on civil rights, immigration, the media, "loyalty," redress and reparations, and primary and secondary sources.…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Japanese American Culture, Japanese Americans, Minority Groups
Haury, David L. – 2003
This ERIC Digest concerns the fundamental science process skills of measurement. One only has to glance around the home or workplace to realize that measurement is fundamental to everyday life. International tests and student scores on measurement, measurement and curriculum standards, student difficulties and misconceptions, the challenge to…
Descriptors: Measurement, Metric System, Science Education, Science Process Skills
Haury, David L. – 2002
Ecosystems are available to educators as interactive units and as such the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (EEE) put considerable emphasis on ecosystems. This ERIC Digest describes the NSES and EEE guidelines for grades 5-8 and 9-12 to provide a basic ecosystem…
Descriptors: Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Urbana, IL. – 1990
This ERIC Digest suggests methods and language that can be used in handling difficult, but common, situations involving young children. Discussion focuses on: (1) 12 methods of discipline that promote self-worth; (2) the process of creating a positive climate that promotes self-discipline; (3) harmful and negative disciplinary methods; and (4)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Educational Practices
Britton, Edward; Raizen, Senta; Kaser, Joyce; Porter, Andrew – 2002
This ERIC Digest presents highlights and recommendations from a working forum (Britton, Raizen, Kaser, and Porter, 2000) in which participants considered diversity and equity issues in mathematics and science education with special emphasis on research directions for the future. An overview of needed research, gender issues in mathematics, and the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Lee, Hyonyong; Fortner, Rosanne W. – 2001
Exotic species are organisms transported by humans, wildlife, wind, and water into regions where they did not historically exist. This ERIC Digest describes available materials and resources for teaching and learning about these exotic species. Sixteen Internet sources are provided along with six videotape resources. The digest also provides…
Descriptors: Animals, Biodiversity, Elementary Secondary Education, Habitats
Hyson, Marion C.; Van Trieste, Karen – 1987
This ERIC digest: (1) describes types and manifestations of shyness among children; (2) briefly reviews research on genetic, temperamental, and environmental influences on shyness; (3) distinguishes between normal and problematic shyness; and (4) suggests ways for parents and teachers to help the shy child by accepting the whole child, building…
Descriptors: Children, Definitions, Emotional Problems, Individual Characteristics
Suping, Shanah M. – 2003
This ERIC Digest concerns the constructed knowledge (also called nave knowledge or prior conceptions) held by students and the changes required to alter students' framework to understand and believe the true science concepts involved. This process is called conceptual change. Theoretical framework of conceptual change, what exactly is conceptual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions
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